Hunter Williams, of Jefferson, who was recently named to the fall 2016 dean’s list at Keene State College, in Keene, New Hampshire. Williams was among 1,400 students who were honored for academic excellence in the fall 2016 semester.
The University of Rhode Island, in Kingston, Rhode Island, has announced the Fall 2016 dean’s list. The following students were named to the dean’s list with their area of study: Alexandria M. Jarvais, of Madison, majoring in Pharm D, and Rachel Cambridge Pratt, of Cornville, majoring in Kinesiology.
High honors: Avianna Boucher, Allyn Foss, Evan Gorr, Royce Pena, Samantha Taylor and Sara Taylor; Honors: Whitney Coro, Dustin Crawford, Taylor Cyrway, McKayla Gray, Paul Kaplan, Mariah Langton, Abigail Longley, Brooklynn Moore, Bobbie Peacock, Sophia Tsimekles and Emily Witham.
High honors: Rhiannon Ambrose, Jacob Atwood, Bailey Dunphy, Samantha LeBeau, Katrina Mason and Sierra Turcotte; Honors: Kelsey Creamer, Kaitlin Dixon, Patrick Dube, Ariana-Lee Dunton, Mackenzie Edes, Daryl Foss, Courtney Fuller, Michael Hargreaves and Jackson Lawler-Sidell.
High honors: Lilyana Aloes, Tristan Bachelder, Lillian Johnson and Sidney Small; Honors: Lauren Chestnut, Lindsay Lesperance, Lauren Rafferty, Haley Taylor and Makayla Vicneire.
High honors: Skylar Karr and Scott Mason; Honors: Emily Avery, Cassidy Ayotte, Annika Carey, Jacob Copeland, Caitlin Crawford, Shay Cyrway, Dylan Leach and Abby Richardson.
Dean’s list: Madyx Kennedy. High honors: Jonathan Martinez, Courtney Paine and Acadia Senkbeil. Honors: Melana Huard, Annaliese Patterson, Eban Pierce and Chris Williams.
Dean’s list: Samantha Golden and Mackenzie Roderick. High honors: Emily Clark, Emma Jefferson, Lili Lefebvre and Sarah Praul. Honors: Liberty Crockett, Jasmine Crommett, Colby Cunningham, Josette Gilman, Larissa Haskell, Madison Lully, Kaden McIntyre, Lorenzo Michaud and Hannah Torrey.
Dean’s list: Breckon Davidson, Alivia Gower, Elizabeth Hardy, Beck Jorgensen, Lily Matthews, Hannah Patterson, Kayla Peaslee, Gabriel Pelletier, Samantha Reynolds and Noah Rushing. High honors: Eve Boatright, Nicole DeMerchant, Lilly Fredette, Reiana Gonzalez, Kaiden Kelley, Alexia Leigh, Kolby Maxim, Ethan Ouellette, Alexis Rancourt, Jaxson Roderick and Lauren Tyler. Honors: Abigail Beyor, Madeline Pacholski and Kaden Soto.
Dean’s list: Isabella Boudreau and Brielle Crommett. High honors: Grayson Podey. Honors: Lacey Arp, Duncan Bailey, Braylin Bilodeau, Simon Clark, Gavin Cunningham, Keira Dechamps, Kaylee Fyfe, Stephanie Kumnick, Sydney Laird, Alexia McDonald, Danny McKinnis, Remy Pettingill, Ryan Tyler and Ava Wedge.
The Vassalboro Business Association has announced that it will offer $500 scholarships to at least three Vassalboro students who plan to attend a Post-Secondary Program of Study in the fall of 2017.
Students must have been residents in Vassalboro for the past two years, provide evidence of community service in that same two year period, and be enrolled in a post-secondary two to four year program of education or training.
Applications are available by emailing lindatitus@hotmail.com or calling 873-2108. They should also be available in local guidance offices. The deadline to return the completed form is April 15, 2017.
All eighth grade students and their parents from the surrounding communities are invited to attend the Erskine Academy Eighth Grade Open House on Wednesday, March 1, at 6:30 p.m., in the gym. The administration strongly encourages all incoming freshmen and their parents to attend this event as registration materials will be available and information about the course selection process will be provided. In the case of inclement weather, a snow date of Thursday, March 2, has been set.
Parents who are unable to attend this event are asked to contact the Guidance Office at 445-2964 to request registration materials.
The Oak Grove School Foundation is accepting applications for grants to support the education and cultural needs of students and non profit organizations in the greater Central Maine area.
Recipients must be educational, charitable or religious organizations that are tax exempt under section 501(c)(30 Of the internal revenue service code.
Grant requests should be received by April 7, 2017. Funding decisions will be made in May and shortly after the funds will be distributed in July. Recent grants have ranged $500-$5,000. The OGSF has also provided seed money for initiatives that last up to three years.
Groups interested in obtaining application forms and guidelines should contact Joann Clark Austin, Oak Grove School Foundation, P.O. Box 150 South China, ME 04358-0150 or Susan Briggs at briggsusan@gmail.com.
China selectmen spent most of a long Feb. 6 meeting reviewing and approving a good part of the warrant for the March 25 town business meeting, to have it ready for budget committee action. The budget committee is scheduled to meet at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, in the town office.
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The town meeting is scheduled for 9 a.m. Saturday, March 25, at China Middle School. The warrant contains the usual municipal spending requests, including numerous requested appropriations from the TIF (Tax Increment Finance) fund, known formally as the Development Program Fund, and related items, like setting tax due dates; a repeat of several requests voters rejected Nov. 8, 2016; and two new items.
The first new item is a request for up to $40,000 to compensate emergency services personnel (firefighters and medical first responders), under a policy to be developed by selectmen. Town Manager Daniel L’Heureux presented information from Albion, Vassalboro and Windsor, which all compensate their volunteers in different ways.
After a long discussion, a majority of the board voted to include the article and recommend its passage, with Ronald Breton abstaining and Joann Austin opposed. Breton said he supports the concept, but wants a policy in place before funding it; Austin objected to having no time to digest the information from other towns.
The other new proposal, from L’Heureux, is to establish a designated unemployment account in the town’s reserve fund and put $10,000 in it to fund unemployment claims. The manager explained that having the fund would eliminate the need to appropriate money for unemployment insurance annually and put it back into reserve when it is not needed.
Items repeated from the Nov. 8 local ballot include the manager’s request for more money for the capital equipment reserve fund, two amended solid waste ordinances and the planning board’s proposed amendments to the Land Use Ordinance. Planning board members were scheduled to decide at their Feb. 7 meeting whether to present their amendments as a single document or to divide them into separate articles.
The next regular China selectmen’s meeting would have been on the Presidents’ Day holiday; it is rescheduled to 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 23.
Clinton Elementary School students held their annual “Souper Bowl Food Drive” from January 30 – February 3, which was the week leading up to the NFL Super Bowl. Classrooms were evenly divided into two teams. Donations were counted by the student council members daily and posted on a paper scoreboard in the lobby. This year’s collection exceeded all others as they collected 947 items as a school. The staff at the Clinton Town Office also donated, putting the total collected over 1,000 items. In photo, student council included, front row, from left to right, Cameron Stewart, Max Begin and Kylie Delile. Second row, Hailey Bowley, Kyra Henry and Matt Stubenrod. Back, Makenzie Nadeau, Cylie Henderson and Lucas Campbell.
by Roland D. HalleeOn December 28, 2016, Jacob Lennon, of Albion, joined the ranks of Eagle Scout, making him one of the last group of Eagles in the nation in 2016. Jacob is a member of Boy Scout Troop #446, in Albion.
Eagle Scout Jacob Lennon. Photo courtesy of Charles Mahaleris
The 18-year-old Lawrence High School senior, in Fairfield, began his scouting career when he was in the fourth grade.
Jacob was recently nominated, by Maine U.S. Senator Angus King, to attend one of the U.S. military academies. Jacob’s preference is the U.S. Naval Academy, in Annapolis, Maryland, where he would aspire to become a marine engineer.
Jacob’s other interests include football, weightlifting, hunting, trapping and fishing.
For his community project, Jacob chose to construct three small free libraries to help encourage reading and give people who can’t get to a library a chance to leave a book for others or borrow a book right in their respective neighborhood.
“In the fall of 2016, Jacob generously provided the town of Fairfield with three extraordinary Give a Book, Take a Book structures,” said Fairfield Town Manager, Michelle Flewelling. “They have become a great addition to our neighborhoods.”
Flewelling coordinated everything through the town, suggesting where the book libraries should be located, made arrangements with Central Maine Power’s Dig Safe program, and placed markers out for Jacob.
The project took 47 hours to complete, and Jacob received the help of troop leader Mathew Dow and Melanie Pellerin, along with fellow members of his Boy Scout troop. His grandfather, Henry Carter, spent a lot of time helping him with the project as well.
The libraries are located at Mill Island Park, on Mill Island, the playground next to the Fairfield Community Center, on Water St., and at Memorial Park, on the corner of High and Elm streets.
Building supplies for the three kiosks were donated by Lakeview Lumber, in China, Hammond Lumber, in Fairfield, and McCormick Lumber, in Winslow. Country Clipper, in Albion, made a cash donation to cover the cost of all other materials.
One of the Give a Book, Take a Book kiosks built by Eagle Scout Jacob Lennon, of Albion, as his community project. Photo courtesy of Michelle Flewelling
Jacob is the son of Tanya Lennon, of Albion.